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THE
SECOND PART
O F A N
ARGUMENT.
Shewing, that a

^tantJittg Sltmp
I

Is inconfiftent with

A Free Government^ and abfblutely

deftrudive to the Conftitution ofj
the Englifli Monarchy.

With (Remarks on the late publidied LIST

of King J AME S's Irifii Forces in h-ancc.

^roximiis ardet
Ucakgon, Virgil. i£n. /. i.

Z.c);7ic?;>, Printed in the Year, 1697.

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The Preface.

THE ten^
following Confiderattons
and dcjigned to
were writ-
he puhlipotd foon

after the Argument agamfl a Stand-

ing Arnciy appeared, (But a Report being gi-
ven out, That the Advocates for a Stand-
ing Army would do Wonders on that

SubjeBy 'twas thought convenient to expecl

Their JtchteVenwits , that if their Succefs
fhould proVe in any meafure anfwerahle to their

Confidence y the ^ublick might haVe been wo

farther importuned about the Matter. I think I
may jufily fay. This Mountain^ after all its
^angs and ConVulftons, has brought forth no-
thing but a ridiculous Mouje, And therefore 1
p)all fuhmit to the Judgment of all impartial
Englifhrnen, what is here faid in confirmation of
the Argument : Which I hope will be of the
greater weighty becaufe taken from our own
Hiftory.

A 2 An
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An Argument^ See.

ART 11.

WE have much talk of a StaiKling

Army which is to be in time ot
Peace, but no body can tell os
what they are to do know
; We
their ufual Commiffion is to kill and flay But ;

where is the Enemy ? Men talk of this with as

much certainty, as if they were already efta-
blifhed. Which is yet the more furprizing, if

we refleft on one of the Articles of Cl:iarge a-

gainft the late King 'James, It is plain therefore
that all this is Pradice, and that thefe bold Fore-
ftallers of Parliaments would iain EnaO: tha?t
without Doors, which from the Foundation of
this Kingdom was never attempted within.
Thefe Gentlemen are alfo pleafcd to afhrm it

neceflary to have a vaft Body of Forces continu-

ed on foot Whereas the firil Proje6^ wc find foi-
;

a Standing Army, in the Year 1629, requires on-

ly three tnoufand Foot in confl^ant Fay, to bridle
tne Impertinence of Parliaments to overaw the
;

Farliaraent and Nation to make Edi6ls to be

;

Laws ]
Laws ; to force
(O
upon the People vafl immbei's of
Excifes ; in fliorr, to overturn the whole
and
Frame or" noble Enghfli Govemtnent. Who-
this
ever has a mind to perufe that dangerous Scheme
in Rujhworth'^s Jppe//dix, pag. 12. and what he
fays of it in his Hiftory, will fee enough.
T marvel whofe Advocates thefeMen arc in this
Matter For I am fatisfied none of thofe brave
:

Englilhmen, who have fought honourably a-

broad, ever meant, wlicn the Service was over,
to be a Charge, Burden and Terror at home to
their own Country ; nor to disfranchife us of two
of our Native Liberties, Fi-eedom from Martial
Law, and Billeting of Souldiers and thereby ;

dire6lly to take away from themfelves, as well as

from tlieir Fellow-fubjefts, one half of the Be-
nefit of the Petition of Right, and inconfequence
the other half too, The Freedom of their Perfons
and Eftates. - ':
:

I fliall therefore confider of a Standing /\rmy,

without minding who is for it, or who is agatnft
it in this Age, and only fhew wlfarcre^Iike ro be

the Confequences of it in future Reigns. And I

have reafon to do thus, becaufe if the Parliament
give the bed King a Standing Army, the worfl-
King fball hereafter claim and have it.
We have many Inftances where Parliaments
in a kind Fit, by one fudden Grant, have entail-
ed a World of laiiing Mifery upon the Nation.
I will mention but one; The Kingdom was
newly delivered from a bitter Tyrant, T mean
-King "[jobn, and had like\^'ife got rid of their per^
fidious Deliverer the Dauphin oi France'', who
after
 .
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after the Engllfh had accepted him for fteir-
King, had fccretly vowed their Extirparioi;,
which the * Vtfcount of Melun^ a Frcnchman,being
at the point of Death, difclofed they were more-
;

over bfeiTed with a young Prince, or whom they

conceived mighty Hopes, in the Hands of a very
wife and honeft Council. This was Life from
the Dead, and a true Revolution. In theTranf-
port of all this Happinefs, about the qth Year of
this new King Henr, ^. the Parliament grant«d
him the Wardfhip of their Heirs. Kjiighto/j,
pag. 24^0, records thus ; Magnates AaglU
it

concefferunt Regi Henrico War das Hxredum &

terrarum fuArum, quod fuit initittm mtilto-
rum mdorum in Anglia, He fays this Grant
was the beginning of many Mifchiefs in Eng-
land. In die Year 1222 thefe Mifchiefs had their
Kife and Beginning but where they ended, no
;

old Chronicle could ever tell: For after this

intolerable Bondage had continued above four
hundred Years, the Nation at laft ranfomed them-
felvesin our time by giving the Excife, It is a
grief to all after Ages to find a Parliament fo mi-
fcrably overfeen, miftbok their
for they both
Man and the hopeful Prince proved as bad as
;

if the very Soul of his Father "John had palled

into hirrr, which is the common Character gi«
ven him by all the Antient Hiilorians And' then :

they utterly millook the Nature of the Grant, and

did notforefee what a Mifery and Valla lage it
might prove to their Poflerity. I ap^x:al to all
the
>i>
I . .i..^

^ Daniel^ pag. 148.

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tlK Antlent Nobility and Gentry, who know-
any thing of the Affairs of their own Families,
whether it was fo or not And yet tliefe were
:

honefl: and brave Men, who would rather l;ave

died than have been the Authors of fo mi-ch
Mifchief: but they were led by falfe Afjear-
ances, that by having the King Guardian oi their
Children, they could not be wrongipd ; they
would have the beft Education at Court, ftand
fair for future Preferment, and that a happier Pro-
'viiion for their Pofterity conldjiot be made Nei-
:

ther could it, for the very Learning which this

inftrudive Pailage has given to their late Polf er
rity, countervails all the Mifchiefs that are pa ft. ,v
But the Advocates for a Standing Army tell us.
That tho the Wards By being annexed to the
Crown, and becoming a Prerogative, could not
fo
be parted with, which was the caufe of the long
continuance of that Mifchiel^ after it was known
and felt to be fo 4 "yet all this is cured by making
the AQ: Temporary, and fetling a Standing Army
only during liis JVlajefty's Reign, or for Years,
or they know not how. I End tjiey liave a
great mind to tlieir Cucumber, for they are
content to have it drelled ^nd pickled aj^y
w^ay.
lanfwer. That fucceeding Princes, iftheyfin<J
an Army, will keep it, and will not trouble themt?
ielves whether the Law be Temporary or i'er.pQ-
tyal. A plain Inftajnce we have of this in tj?e Cu*-
,

ftoms For tho Tunnagca^id Poundage, and; th^

:

other Impofitions, are a Subfidy and free <^ift,

aiid' the King's Anfwei: to the Bill tJianks the
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SubjeQ-s for their Good- wills. And tho Parlia-
ments have always uled fuch Cautions and Limi-
tations in thofc Grants, as miglit prevent any
Claim, and heretofore hniited them to a fhort
time, as for a Year or two and if they were con-
;

tinued longer, they have dire£led a certain fpace

of CeiTation, or Intermidion, tlvjt {^o the Right of
the SubjcQ might be the more evident at other ;

times they have been granted upon occafion of

War for a certain number of Years, with Provi-
fo, that if tlie War were ended in the mean time^
then the Grant Hiould ceafe and of courfe they
;

have been fequeftred into the hands of fome Sub-

jefts for the guarding of the Seas
Notwithftanding all this, tho the Parliament
fo carefully guarded their Grants, yet King
Chay/es the Firfl took this Subfidy without any
Grant at all, for fixteen Years together tho fc- ;

veral Parliaments in the mean time forbad the

paiment oi^ it, and voted all thofe to be publick
Enemies that did not refufe it. The like did his
Son the late King James till his Parliament gave
it him and in his firft Speech to them he de-
:

manded it as his own, by the name of mj Reve-

nue. And why then fliall not another Prince
come and fay the fame. Give me my Army, if he
ever have a Parliament to ask ? To limit a Prince
with Laws where there is an Army, is to bind
Sampfon with his Locks on.

Having made appear that an Army now will

be anArmy always, I come in the nckt place to
/how what the Confequences of it will be, both
B by
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By die Experience of former Ages, and by the
Nature of the Thing.
In all Ages and parts of the World, a Stand-
ing Army has been the never-failing Inftrument
of enflaving a Nation ; which Richard the Se-
cond, fH^aijif7g.ip2ig.^^^.) compaffing to do here
in England^ accordingly ufed the Means. For
the Safety of his Perfon, healTembled together
(mult OS MdefAciores) a great number of profli-
gate Perfons out of the County of Chefier^ who
ihould keep watch and ward continually about
him in their turns. This Life-guard of Jiis con-
jRfted of four thoufand Archers; who commit-
ted fuch Outrages amongft the People, overawed
the Parliament, and aided him in his Tyrannical
Proceedings in fuch a manner, as could not be
believed, if it were not witneifed by a whole
Parliament, and his own Confeflion, ^ Ante.
''' In
the '^th. ii
--•[
;
-
;

"*
Itetn, Tempore quo idem Rex in Parliamento fiio fecit
ad'udicari EucemGloucefiriae, & Comites Arundell & War-
wick ut' liberius poffit exercere Crudelitatem in eofdem, 8c
volniTtatem ftiam 'injuriofam in aliis adimpkre, fiM attraxit
ffiultitudinem magnam Malefadorum de Comitatu Cef-
triae, quorum quidam cum tranfeuntes per Regnum, tam
infraRegis hofpitium quam extra, ligeos Regni crudeliter
& qUofdamverberaverunt, valneraverunt, & de-
occiderunt,'
prAdarunt botia populi, & pro fuis vidualibus folvere recu-
ihrunt, d< Uxores & alias mulieres rapuerunt, & violave-
fdut, &c licet faper eorum hujufmodi exceiVibus graves que-
r moniae deferebantur ad audientiam didi Domini Regis v
Idem tamen Rex fuper his juflitiam, feu remediura facere
non cijravit, {od favebat iifdem gentibus in maieficiis eo-
rum.-, Confidens in iis &
eorum proefidio, contra quo^cunqy
alios Regiri^ propter -quod fideles regni fui magnam commo-
iioiiis &
'iiidignationis miiteriam 'habuerunt. Decern. Scrip,
<&/. 2748,,.
 In fliort, tiio many of thofe Chefh/re-mcn
plundered and lived, upon Fiee-quafter beat, ;

wounded, killed and raviflied where- ever they

came: Yet becaufe they enabled him to execute
all his cruel and arbitrary Defigns in Parliament,

he countenanced them in all their Crimes, as con-

fiding in them, and trufting in their defence of
him againft all the Realm befide For wliicli
;

caufe all the Lieges of his Realm had great mat-

terof Commotion and Indignation,
This Parliament was in the 21/? of his Reign,
and in it the Frame of this Englifli Government
was quite deftroyed. I need not fhew hi wliat
Particulars, for that done already by Baco», and
is

many other Lawyers. But in fhort, the King

was made abfolute, and the whole Power of
Parliament, which might remedy things after-
wards, was given up For it was made Trea-
:

fon for any Man to endeavour to repeal any

of the Arbitrary Conftitutions that were then
made.
I am even adiamed, when I obferve former
Princes fo zealous for opprefTing and wronging a
Nation, and fo bent upon it, to refleft how cold
and remifsmany Subje^ls have been in all times,
and how unconcerned to prefervc their indifpen-
fiblc Rights, which are the very Jjcing both of
rhcmfclv'cs and their Poderity To fee King;

Jobff rcadv to pawn his Soul, and o(^er Mn-amo^

itm the Emperor o^i Morocco to turn lurl^, and
to make his Kingdom tributary to him only, ro
get his Airiilance to cnilavc this Nation, and Sub-
)e6h to take no care of their Englifli Liberties ;
B 2 which
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which certainly are proved to be wortli keeping
by the eagernefs of bad Princes to take them a-
way.
But to return to our Chefhire-rnQn^ and to the
Parliament which they had in charge, Sagittx-
riU iniimerMihus valUtOj walled about with an
infinitenumber of Archers, as it is defcribed Ar-
tie. 4. The Parliament was hereby fo overawed,

tliat in what they did they were Ma-

Walfmg, gis timore Regis duett quam mentium
YAtiom., led more by fear of the King
than their Confciences their Souls were not their
;

own. And befides the Standing Awe and Ter-

ror which this Guard was to both Houfes during
their Seflion, there happened a PafTage at laft
which put them all into a very great Fright It is
:

thus fet down by Stow^ p. ^ 16. '

And then licence
*
being had to depart, a great ilir was made, as is
* ufed ; Whereupon the King's Archers, in nwn-
*ber 4000, compailed the Parliament- Houfe
* (thinking there had been in the Houfe fome
* by fighting) witli their Bows bent, their
Broil
' Arrows notched, and drawing ready to fhoot, to
* the terror of all that were there but the King
\

^
herewith coming, pacified them.
Thefe Men did the King fuch acceptable Set-
vice, that he could do no lefs than make fome
return to his Implements, which he did in ho-
nouring Chejhire for their fakes. In this Seffion
of Parliament he made it a Principality, Caf, 9.
and himfelf Prince of Chefier : And fo as Bacon
ys, Counties go u^, and Kjngdoms go dorvn :
This had never rifen again but by a happy Revo-
lution,
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Jution, which followed in lefs than two Years. So
much for the Chcfljire~mcn.
But what figiiif}' the Proceedings of this vil-
lanous Crew to an Army, who are all of thera
Men of Honour, and perhaps in Parliament-time
fiiallbe ordered a hundred miles o.l? thefe can-
not wall in, furround, begiit and befet a Parlia-
ment, nor confequently hinder it from being a
Free Parliament. That I deny, for I hope fuch
an Army may diller in Judgment, and can peti-
tion a Parliament at that diftance ; and we very
well know that their Defires are always Com-
mands. The Parliament in 41, long before there
was any breach with the King, were in a fair way
to have been petitioned out of doors by an Army
150 miles off, tho there was the Clog of a Scotch
Army at the heels of them, who upon the leaft
Motion would certainly have followed. And if
Denz,ill Holies had not locked the Doors, and com-
municated the Matter to the Houfe, who imme-
diately fell upon the Officers that were MemberS;,
Colonel Jjhhur^ham, iVtlhnot^ Pollard, &c. and
quafhed the Defign, it had brought the whole
Nation into great Confuficn. The Petition of an
Army is like that of the Cornifli-men in He/?rj
the Seventh's Time it is alwayr a flrong Peti-
;

tion.
Nay, an Army coald not go out in this hum-
ble way to over-rule a Parliament. If they are
in being, they influence ; and in Cefar'^s cafy way
they conqucr,by looking on. The very Reputati-
on of a Force to back them, will make all Court-
Propofals fpeak big, tho never fo contrary to
the
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the Intcren: of tlie Nation. For there is no de
bating nor difputing againft Legions. It will

tempt them to do many things they durft not

other wife think of: What is much out of our
reach, rarely is the Objeft of our Thoughts ; but
the FaciUty of Execution is generally the firft
Motives to an Attempt. Now
it is abundantly

the Intereft of Court-Flatterei's to live under a

corrupt Reign. Then Bribes and Confifcations
HI) their Coffers. No
Man's Wife or Daughter
is free from their Luft, or Eftate from their Ava-

rice. They extort Prefents from the NobiHry,

Goods from the Tradefmen, and Labour from
the Poor. In Oioit, all is their own. And 'tis
to be feared, thefe Gentlemen (unlefs they have
more Vertue than ufually falls to their fhare)
will put Princes upon (uch Counfels as promote
their own Advantage. They will tell them how
mean k is to be awed by a few Country Gentle-
men, when all the Kings in Europe befides are
got out of Pupilage, as Le^vis XI called it. They
will fill their heads with a thoufand trifling Jea-
loufies of Monfters, Commonwealths, and fucli
like Bug-bears: and it hath been difficult even for
the wifeft Princes to free themfelves from this
fort of Cattle. Fdfe Prophets fJull arife that jball
deceive even ihe Elect, Nothing but the Fear of
'Punifhment, and the being made a Sacrifice to the
Peoples juft Revenge, can make fuch Men ho-
neft But if they have an Army to prote£l tliein,
:

all thefcConfidei'at ions are laid a fide, and all Ar-

guments areanfvvTred in a word, The J\jngh,u

jin Army, The Kjng ha^mArmy^ /lops all Mciulis,
and
 J^

and cuts oft all Reply. It is as if it fliould be

faid, Set your hearts at reft, for the King has all
Power in his hands, and you have none He :

lias all your Eftates, Lives and Liberties, under

his Girdle: Slaves, and talk The King has an

!

Army, is Anfwer to every thing but

a confuting
a better Army, which Thanks be to God and his
prefent Majeiiy we have found. But as we arc
not to live upon Miracles, fo we are not to tempt
Dangers.
I have flayed the longer upon this Point, in
fliewing how inconllftent an Army is with the
Freedom of Parliament, becaufe they being the
Keepers of our EngJiOi Liberties, can ill perform
that Office, when they have parted with their
Power into other hands. They arethelalf Re-
fort of the Subjeft for tlie Redi-efs of their Grie-
vances. But liow fhall tliey relieve the poor
Royfion-vci^n^ for inftance, from Opprelfion
tlie

and Infolences of the Souldiery, when perhaps

they fhall be fubjeft to th.e like themfelves ? Ihe
Projectors are aware of this terrible Inconveni-
ence, and therefore they propofe an Expedient,
That it fliall be the King's Army, but the Par-
liament fhall have the paying of them whereby ;

they fhall be as much the Parliament's humble

Servants, as the Parliament their proper Maf
ters.
. Much at one I believe. For the Long ParJia-
mcnthadiiot fuel) a King and Parliament Army
as this, h\it an Army that was all their own,
their Creatures, as tlie Court-word is railed, ;

lifted, comraiiTioaicd, and paid whclly by their-

felves,
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iclves, and not in PartnerQ-iip and that had man-
;

iully fought all their Battels: And yet upon the

fii'ft Didailc they were pleafed to take, they dif-
own Ma ll:ers, and with a higli hand
treiled their
forced them to banilli eleven of their principal
Members, Dcnzil Holies Sir Phtiip Stapylton^
^

Glyn, and fuch other gi-eat Men. Sir Philip Sta-

pjfUo/'^ died in his At another time
Baniflinient.
they v/ould not hundred iVlembers to
fuffer near a
enier into tlie Houfe, whom they thought not
wdl affefted to the Bufinefs tlien in hand, and at
the fame time evil intreated and imprifoned about
forty Members. This they called purging the
Houfe. After they had thus handled them at fe-
veral times, in conclufion, the Officers came and
reprimanded the Houfe, bid take away tliat
Fool's Bawble the Mace, violently pulled the
Speaker out of the Chair, drove out the Mem-
bers, and locked up the Doors, and fo good night
to the Parliament. The Wifdom of that Parlia-
ment may have been very great, but it was Non-
fenfe for them to think, that an Army does not
know its own Strength. Foi" without dear-
bought Experience any body may know before-
hand what will be the natural Confequences of a
Standing Army. From the day you fet them up,
you fet up your Mafters ; you put your felves
wholly into their hands, and are at their difcreti-
on. It is the Conquefl: of the Nation in the fi-
(enteft, fhorteft, and fureft way. They are able
to difpofe of your Lives and Eftates at Will and
Pleafure And what can a foreign Conqueror do
:

more ? If after this we live and poffefs any thing,

'tis
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'tis becaufe rhey
let us and how long that H^aJl
:

be, neitherwe, no nor they themfelves, know.

Nay, ill many pefpeiEls an authorized Standin^r
Army is far worie than a foi-e:gn Invafion, and a
Conqueli from abroad. For tb.cre we have a
chance for it but this is a ConqLiefl: iji cold
:

Blood, which may not be refilled. And we lofe

the infeparable Rights of the Conquered, which
is to refcue and deliver ihemfelves^ and to throw
off the Yoke as foon as they can. It is likewifea
great Aggravation of our Mifery, to b6 enllaved
at our own Coil and Charges Befides the bitter
:

Refentments of Unkindnefs and Breach of Truil,

if it be done by thofe who ought to prote6l us,
and provide better for us at leafl fliould not
;

Jeave us in a worfc Condition than they found us.

But above all, if we contribute to our own Thral-
dom by our Folly, Flattery and little felf-feeking
if the DeflruiElion of us and our Pofterity be of
our felves, that Refleftion hereafter will have a
Sting in it ; and it will not be enough to fay,
Who would have thought it ?
Now in being over-powered and conquered by
a Foreign Enemy, we contraQ: none of this
Guilt, and fuffer it as a bare Calamity. But there
is no great fear of that, for the Dul:c de Ro/j.w is

our Guarantee that we cannot be conquered from

abroad who in a fp reful Defcription of E/jgUnd
;

lays, it is a great Animal that can bedeflroyed

by nothing but it fclf. Every body mulf die
when their tim.e is come and Empires as well as
:

private Men muft fubmit to Time and Fate ; Go-

vernments have their Infancy, their Meridiau,
C and
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and their Decay ; and the Pi^lucles to their De-
flruftion are generally Luxury, Pride, Sloth, Pro-
digahty, Cowardice, Irrcligion, Self-inrereil:, and
an univerfal Negle8: of th.e Publick. God grant
this be not the Condition of a Nation I know.
Well, 'tis all one for let a Standing Army be
;

what it will, ftill we muft have it for this unan-

fwerable Reafon, viz>. The Defence of the Nation
fro?n A fudden Jnvafion for unlefs, fay they, you
:

h/iz'e an Army to lie leiger^ you are liable to be over-

run by a foreign Enemy e^re you are aware ; and you

mllfhewlefs Pi^it than ^fopV Rhinoceros ; you mil
have your Men to raife^ and your Teeth to rvhet, when
you jhottld uje them. This Thought I confefs is
very natural and obvious, and therefore could
not poflibly efcape our wife Forefathers yet we ;

cannot learn that ever they putMt in praftice,

which is a great fign they did not like it. No,
we are well alTured that they would not have
fufFered a Mercenary Army to defend the Nation
if they would have done it gratis. They would
rather have miftrufted it would double the Inva-
fion, and make it as big again as it was. I do
not fpeak this by guefs, but have it from the wife
Sir Robert Cotton, who being confulted, ^ Caroli^
in a diffi'cult State of Affairs, amongft other things
gave this Advice at the Council- Table Rujh-
:

worth, pag. 469. There mufi be, to roithfland a Fo^

reign Tnvafion, a proportion of Sea and Land Forces,
And it is to be confidered,- that no March by Land
can be of that fpeed to make head againfi the landing
of an Enemy : Then that follows. That there is nofuch
Prevention as to bs Majlerof the Sea, ,

For
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(^9)
Tor ths L/i/id Forces, if ft n^ere for nn cjfeHJh^
Wnr^ the Men of iefs Livelihood vrere befi fp/tred ;
drjdwe ufed for?//er/j to m.ikefrfch JVars Purgamenta
Rcipub'icce, if rve made no farther Vur chafe bj it.
But for the Safety of the Commonwealth^ the JVif-
d^m of all times did ncz'cr iinrtif the Pnhlick C.itfffe
to any other than to fuch as had a 'Portion in the
Piiblick Adi'cnture. And that xve faiv in eighty
eighty )vh(n the Care of the Q^ieen and oj the Coun-
cil did make the Body of that large Ar?-nv no other
than of the Trained Bands.
In the fame Advice to the King he lets hriii
know how^ the People i-efented his keeping iVp an
Army in the Winter, tho y'e were then in War
both witli France 2ind Spain. The words are thefe:
And the dangerous Diftafes to the People are not
a little improved unexampled Courfe^ as they
by the
conceive, of retaining an Inland Army' in Winter
Seafon^ when former Times of general Fear^ as in
eighty eight, produced none fuch and makes them in
;

their dijhaHed Fears conjecture idly, it was raifed

wholly to fubjeci their Fortunes to the Will of Pover
rather than of Law, and to make good jome farther
Breach upon their Liberties and Freedoms at home,
rather than defend us from any Force abroad. And
tells the King the Confcquences of Jealou- tiiefe

fies isworthy a prudent and preveiuing Care.

But what ftgnify the Proceedings of former Ages
to us ? fay the Proje£lors, the World is flrangely
altered, and the Power of France formi-
is become fo
dable ^ that it can never be oppofed in the Elizabeth
way. They ftill keep up an Army of three or
four kundi-ed thoufand Men, and how flial] us
C 2 de-
defend our felves a gainil: all tliofe, without tenor
fifteen thou fa nd difciplined Troops ?
I think the Autlior oF the Argument^ page r8
and 19, liath fufficiently Hiewed the Diiiiculty,
not Impofllbihty, of a Foreign Invallon, whilft
\!i

we arc fuperlor at Sea the great iinprobabihty

;

the French Kir.g Oiould engage in fucli a Defign,

and much greater hiC fliould fuccced m it. But
that we may for ever lay this Goblin, we will
admit our Fleets to be kidnappM by an unlucky
Wind, whilft the Rench land twenty thoufand
Men in our Country. Thoin gratitude for this
ConcefTion, I hope my Adverfaries will grant
that their Fleet cannot get back again without our
meeting with them, (fince the fame Wind tliat
carries tliem home, will carry us out) or if they ;

wall not be fo good-natur'd as to allow this, I

will undertake for them (for we live in an under-
taking Age) that they will agree we Hial inter- I

Then the Cafe is thus, That

cept their Supplies.
twenty thoufand Men, of which few can be
Horfe, are landed in England^ without any hu-
mane probability of being fupplied from abroad.
I fay, this Army fhall never march twenty
miles into the Country; for tliey cannot put
themfelves in a marching pofture in lefs than a
fortniglttor three weeks; and by that time we may
have 10006^0 ;^ilitia drawn down upon them,
whereof ten thoufand fliall be Hcrfe, and as ma-
ny Dragoons as we pleafe : And if this Militia

does nothing elfe but drive the Country, cut ofF

their Foragers and Straglers, polTefs themfelves
of the Defilees, and intercept Provifions, their Ar-
my
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my mufl: be deflroyed in a' fmall time.
Of this kind I could give many Indancesout of
Hiftory but becaufe Aiitient ones, they fay, will
:

not fit our purpofe, I will give you a late one out
of IreLi?2d.
i/?, I think it will be readily agreed, there are

ten Men in E/igUnd for one in Ireland,

2dlyy That King J¥/liiam had more Englifh and
Scotch to join with him in IrtUnd^ than the F. K.
hath Malecontents in England.
^dljj That even our iMilitia have more Cou-
rage than Iriflimen. And yet tho we liad eight
thoufand Plorfe, and above thirty thoufand Foot
in Ireland, and a great part of the Country in our
poircflion, yet we were more than four Years in
conquering the refl:, and almofl: a Miracle we did
it then. And I believe no Man will deny, if we
could not have fupplied our Army from England^
but they had all there periPned fuch is the Ad-
;

vantage of fighting upon one's own Dung-

hil.

And fhew what Treatment the French arc

to
like to meet with
in England^ I will put you in
mind of the Purbeck Invafion, which was To pri-
vate, that it was feen only by an old Man and a
Boy And yet tho the Country tliouglit the Go-
:

vernment againfl: them, we had above forty tliou-

fand Volunticis in Arms in tw# or three days
time, who came on their own accord to
thither
give them the meeting and if they had been
;

there, 1 doubt not would have given a good ac-

count of thein. Our Court when it was over,
(hewed their diflikc of it, and quelfioned the
ShenrF
Sheriff of Dorfei^ire about it. And tliO we
have forgot it,- yet 1 believe tlie French will re-
mcniber Purheck ; lor it fliewed the true Spirit
and Genius of the EngUfli Nation.

To conclude, The whole mans[rement of this

ProjeQ: is ridiculous ; but the fatal Confequences
of it reiquire deeper thought For when we haVe
:

fooPd our felves into the Bcndageofa Staiicting

A; my, how fliall we ever get out of it again ?
Not as the Nation freed themfelves from the
Court of Wards. Wecannot buy it ol^ for two
very good Reafons: No Money will be taken for
it; andwefliall have nothing to give which is
not theirs already :Our Eftates, Li\TS and Liber-
ties will be all at their Command. They will
have the Keys of our Money, and the Titles ta
our Lands in their Power.
•
This JafI: and'; irreparable Mifchief and Mifery
the ]'i'oie£^ors had prepared for us. But under a
Gracious King and a Wife larli^ment, 1 hope we
fhall never fee it. His Majefty's Declaration is
direftly againft a Standing Army, as a means to
affisir all jlrbitrarj Defigns. and thertbj en (lave the-

N^tio'a', dire 6lly againft all wicked Attempts of

Conqueft, and all Defpotick Government 'tis
;

full of Liberty and Property in every part So :

that we are fure to be fafe on that fide. And this

Declaration was fo highly valued, and fo wholly-
relied upon by the Parliament, that it is incorpo- -^

rated into our Laws as the only redrefs of cur pafi:

Grievances and Oppreflions, and the beft Foun-
dation of our future Happinefs And with entire
:

con-
 (^3)
confidence tliat l]is Majefly would coiitifiue taa.^l
in purfuance of that Declaration , tbe'l^arliaf-
ment refolved tliathe fliould be, and be -declared
King. So that it is to be accounted the P.tcfa Qoa-
vent A of this Government.?
Here I know the Proje6lors will fliy, That the
Army condemned by the Declaration, was -the
lateK. "^Ames's Army, kept up in time of t^ok
without Confent of Parliament whereas tlife
;

Standing Army is to be kept up with their Con-

fent.
True it was {o^ and therefore it was a Riot
and unlawful Aflembly every hour it flood ; and
iiaving no Law for it, it miglit have been prefen-
ted or indicled to no purpofe indeed
; But as an:

Invafion upon the Subje8: it might be refilled and

pulled down as a Nufance, when-ever the Nation
found themfeives able. But fuppofe this Army
had been made part of the Conftitution, and had
obtained an A8: of Parliament for it, which is
as much as we can have for a King or a Qiieen ;

what then had become of us ? They were Aids

and Inflruments of Arbitrary Government be-
fore, but then they had been legal Inftruments,
and had enflaved us by Authority. In Hiort, we
could not have relieved our felves from them, nor
any one elfe in cur behalf, becaufe our own 61
and Deed would have always been good againlf
us. The delightful Notion we know liis Majclfy
by, is that of our Deliverer which he was upon
this oceafion'. But thefe mifchievous Projectors
would turn it into fuch a Deliverance, as if we
had
had been helpt over a Ford, to be afterwards lofl:

in the Sea. And as to the Parliament, we are fafe

on that fide, for a Reafon amongft others which
is in the Declaration in thefc words ; And it can-
not be imagined that ihofe rvho have invited m^ or
thofe that have already come to affifi us, miljoin in a
rvicked Deftgft of make void their own
Conquefi^ to
Titles to their Honours^ EJlates and Jnterefts,

M5>iWi^^B>iw5iw^^i>^^—»*^»^wtJ<rf*«<i^^irtfi i ^ ^mhik

A TOST'
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ATOSTSCKIPT, n^uhRe^
marJ^ on a late pihlijloed List
of Irifl) Papjis now in the French
Kings Service,

'
I
'HEAdvocates for a Standing Army liaving
I an Army of Irifli
lately publifhed a Lift of
ana other Papifts now in the French King's Ser*
vice, which they fay are ready when called for,
I could not let that Paper go without fome Re-
marks becaufe it informs us of fome things,
;

that, if I miftake not, defervc the Confideration

of all true Englifii Men, and are as foUoweth. f,

1. That there is in Frame an Army of eighteen

thoufand Irifh and other Papifts, with K. "James

at the Head of them.
2. That they are r^ady tobetranfported hither
when called for.
J.
They give broad Hints that there is a fort
of Men amongft us, who
will call for them.
4. That thefe Irifli and their Corrcfpondcnts
will anfwer whatever has been or fhall be written
againft a ftanding Army. '/-
'.
'

To the firft I anfwer, that tho the Irifli are the

beft Troops in the World to plunder, murder,
and malTacre the innocent and dcfcncelefs People,
D yet
yetr they are tlie worfl: of all Souldiers when they
meet with Refiflance. Thclate War in Ireland^
particularly the Siege of London-derry, and the
routine of 'J'^Jii'^ Maccartj, one of their beft Offi-
cers, who was at the Head of a confiderable Ar-
my, by a fmall Number of the defpifed Militia,
has abundantly demonftrated this Truth. And .

itdcferves the Refentment ofthfe EngliQi Nati-

on, to find the Enemies of their Country endea-
vouring at laft to fright tliem with thatdefpica-
ble Crew, when the Terror they would have
given us of the French Armies has proved in- -

effeftiial. King is in poiTeflii

Befides, the French
on of Troops they fcrve him, and
thefe Irifh ;.

are. paid by him: and no Man but a Publick

Boutefeu would have the Confidence to fay, He
will lend them to King James to invade us .For :

what. will that be than declaring a new War ?

lefs

And they who think it in the Power of the French

King to aflifl: King James againft us, without
any Breacii of the late T^reaty, do in e.Te£l fay,
That due Care has not been taken of thcNation^
than which there cannot be a more fcandalous.
Refledion on his Majefty.
Tx) the fecond and third" of' their Menaces L
fhall only fiy, That 'tis fame what extraordinary,
that Men fliOulcl ' dare publickly^ to- avow theiix
Correfpondcnce with our Enemies, to own them-
felves acquainted with their Defigns againil: us^
to tlireaten the People with" an Army of Irifli.
B^i^dai. .and to let.us knowtharther.eare foaiea-
mangft ns ready to join them.. But the Great:!
Cquncii^of the Nationbeingnow afreaibkd, will
 undoubtedly make fuch Provifion for our Safety,
that neither they nor their Correfpondcnts fhall
be able to hurt us.
In the laft place they tell us, that this isan An-
fwer to the Argument againft a Standing Army^
and to all that has been or fhall be written on that
Subje^:. Here's thorow Work indeed and 'tis :

pity it fliould want a Place in the next Edition of

the h't^ IVifdom. Ml". B^ijes'^s fighting fingly a-
gainft whole Armies nothing to it For he like
is :

a modeft Man, was only for routing fuch as

fhould be railed, and never once dreamt of de-
ilroying them before they had a Being.
'Tis hoped tlicrefore that this laft Goblin will
do us no niore hurt than all the refl that have been
induftrioufly raifed to terrify the People, and to
difturb the Publick Peace,

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